Research Article
Soil Water Characteristics of Gleysols in the Bamenda (Cameroon) Wetlands and Implications for Agricultural Management Strategies
Table 4
Summary statistics of the soil moisture characteristics in the Bamenda wetlands (n = 20).
| Parameters | HW | WP | FC | AWR | AWC | RAW | CW | UW | WHC | D | GW | AC | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (mm/m) | (mm/m) | (%) | (%) | (mm/m) | (dm/m) | (%) | (%) |
| Minimum | 7.20 | 22.14 | 48.16 | 11.13 | 215.83 | 289.21 | 29.04 | 0.11 | 431.66 | 2.65 | 0.72 | 6.49 | Maximum | 23.02 | 58.86 | 75.34 | 45.80 | 423.61 | 567.64 | 57.00 | 27.59 | 847.22 | 4 .44 | 13.52 | 31.86 | Mean | 13.72 | 44.80 | 67.00 | 22.20 | 339.85 | 45540 | 48.09 | 8.48 | 679.70 | 3.83 | 7.46 | 24.76 | SD | 4.87 | 11.16 | 7.09 | 10.16 | 62.87 | 84.24 | 6.65 | 8.25 | 125.73 | 0.45 | 4.08 | 6.89 | CV | 36.00 | 25.00 | 11.00 | 46.00 | 18.00 | 18.00 | 14.00 | 97.00 | 18.00 | 12.00 | 55.00 | 28.00 | Skew | 0.59 | −0.66 | −1.15 | 1.27 | −0.48 | −0.48 | −1.21 | 1.33 | −0.48 | −1.06 | −0.14 | −1.19 | Kurtosis | −0.53 | −0.45 | 1.10 | 0.63 | −0.70 | −0.70 | 2.16 | 0.47 | −0.70 | 0.81 | −1.40 | 0.97 | K-S stat | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.22 | 0.13 | 0.20 |
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HW: hygroscopic water; WP: permanent wilting point; FC: field capacity; AWR: available water reserve; AWC: available water content; RAW: readily available water; CW: capillary water; UW: unavailable water; WHC: water-holding capacity; D: weighting depth; AC: air content; GW: gravity water; CV: coefficient of variation; SD: standard deviation; K-S stat: Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistics.
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